City Lights Bookstransfers@onixsuite.com20150303engCOM.ONIXSUITE.97808728643510301City Lights Books020872864359039780872864351159780872864351BC01Queen CocaineA Novel01GCOI872861001313501A01Nuria AmatAmat, NuriaNuriaAmatNuria Amat was born in Barcelona, where she now lives, after having lived in Colombia, Mexico, Berlin, Paris, and the USA. She regularly contributes to the Spanish press and her work is made up of novels, stories, and essays2B06Peter BushBush, PeterPeterBushPeter Bush is the Director of the British Center for Literary Translations at the University of East Anglia. He has translated the work of Juan Carlos Onetti and Senel Paz and recently edited an anthology of Cuban stories, <I>The Voice of the Turtle</I>.01eng250002500324Internet CL HierarchyEuropean Writing24Internet CL HierarchyFiction24Internet CL HierarchyLiterature in Translation03<p>Following the footsteps of a writer persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman embarks on an adventure in the jungles of Colombia where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges unharmed.</p><p>Confronted by solitude in a region where it rains incessantly, she discovers, first in her lover, then in the people around her, the alarming signs of a devastating war. In a narrative that swings between intimacy and horror, she bears witness to a hell in which she abandons everything except the language she has had to reinvent, as her only refuge, to speak about the thousand new faces death has shown her.</p><p><b>Nuria Amat</b> was born in Barcelona, where she now lives.</p>02Following the footsteps of a writer persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman embarks on an adventure in the jungles of Colombia where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges...08"...the Barcelona-based Catalan author brings an alien sensibility and lush, invented language to <i>Queen Cocaine</i>, set in Colombia's war-ravaged countryside.... Amat's book is a paranoid fever dream of a peasant novel – heir to those of Rulfo and Fanon, but also Lispector – filtered through the gaze of her doomed outsider."The Village Voice08"Amat deftly conjures the funereal landscape of Colombia's Pacific coast — an indifferent sea; intemperate rains; a jungle carpeted with snakes and punctuated by swamps... a traumatic forced evacuation of the village near the end adds gravitas to the book, which is an acute, grimly poetic account of a South American heart of darkness."Publishers Weekly08“A happy combination of intelligence and critical insight.”Juan Goytisolo, Times Literary Supplement08"In all, a revelatory tale that reads like the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor."Kirkus Reviews08"[An] apocalyptic novel by Spanish writer Amat . . . A brilliant portrayal of the horrors of drug cultivation; recommended for all general collections, especially where there is an interest in Latin American culture."Library Journal08“An extraordinary novel in contemporary Spanish fiction."El Mundo08“In this striking <i>Queen Cocaine</i>, Nuria Amat’s terse, almost sleep-walking style is subject to the test of fire of a real war, the one waged in Colombia.”César Aira2301http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100131350/extras/inter.amat.html04037201http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100131350/images/9780872864351L.jpg07037201http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100131350/images/9780872864351S.jpg080201http://www.citylights.com/resources/persons/4911.gif02http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100131350City Lights Publishers01City Lights Publishers0420050301018in025in0816oz